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Home > Complete List of "i-j" Artists > Joe Jackson > Item 89
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Beat Crazy
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by Joe Jackson
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$4.45
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on 10-2-2008.
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1. Beat Crazy
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2. One to One
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3. In Every Dream Home A Nightmare
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4. Evil Eye
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5. Mad at You
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6. Crime Don't Pay
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7. Someone Up There
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8. Battleground
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9. Biology
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10. Pretty Boys
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11. Fit
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Joe Jackson cut two prototype albums for the blossoming new wave movement, but he considered himself a musician and artist. After the success of "Look Sharp" and "I'm The Man," Jackson was getting restless and feeling hemmed in by the cliches of punk, and he made an effort to dynamite his limitations. It is evident from the very first track that Jackson was out to veer as far left of expectations as possible. Opening with a scream against a beatnik bassline, "Beat Crazy" begins with bass player Graham Maby singing lead. Joe Jackson tried very hard to make this album a "band" effort, and as the liner notes put it, "make sense of rock and roll." He also declares the attempt a failure. It is easy to see how Jackson used the "failure" of "Beat Crazy" to make the leap to the more sophisticated "Night And Day." In one of his best ballads, "One On One," he deftly cuts the antagonist and himself with great couplets like "You're beautiful when you get mad. Or is that a sexist observation?" It's a far cry from the glibness of "Is She Really Going Out With Him." The music also took on more color, with the jazzy intro to "Crime Don't Pay" taking on a similarity to "Glad" from Traffic's "John Barleycorn Must Die." "Beat Crazy" suffers from that kind of intersection of desires and directions. The dub effects on "Mad At You" now just sound silly, and as a social statement, "Battleground" is even more embarrassing then it was in the 80's. Still, it is hard to fault Jackson and his mates for trying to shatter their old walls. Bear in mind that Jackson's next album was the Big Band "Jumpin' Jive," and that he'd jettison the band after "Beat Crazy." That helps to explain the wildness and musical tension that drives the eccentricities of "Beat Crazy."
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Beat Crazy
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Price: $4.45
Updated on 10-2-2008.
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